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Updated: April 30, 2025
The officers sent by the Regent to inform Didymus that his garden would be converted into a public square had just arrived. When Gorgias entered, these magistrates, their clerks, and the witnesses accompanying them a group of twenty men, at whose head was Apollonius, a distinguished officer of the royal treasury were in the house. The slave who admitted the architect informed him of it.
The head had reached the Corner of the Muses, where, concealed by the old trees in the garden, it moved on between the Temple of Isis and the land owned by Didymus. The end still extended to the Choma, whence it had started. All Alexandria seemed to have joined it.
Didymus, too, greeted him warmly, and conducted him to the little room where the youth possessed by demons lay on a divan. He was still groaning and whimpering. Tears were streaming down his cheeks, and, whenever any member of the household approached, he pushed him away.
Whether this was due to the wrath of some enemy, or to mere accident, could not be learned; the vain efforts of the luckless man to crawl out of the water up the smooth marble were so comical, and his gestures, after helping hands had dragged him dripping upon the pavement of the square, were so irresistibly funny, that more laughing than angry voices were heard, especially when some one cried, "His hands were soiled by blackening Didymus, so the washing will do him good."
Her eyes had blazed with anger as she uttered the words; then, letting her little clenched hand fall, she went on in an altered tone: "Months may pass before he is strong enough to risk the attack, and the immortals themselves approved the erection of the monument. The only obstacle in the way, the house of the old philosopher Didymus, was destroyed. A messenger from Gorgias brought the news.
"Because I am not doing anything of the sort! Why will you harp on that one string? Good heavens! Aren't you yourself the author of the sentiment that a sociologist ought to have some first-hand knowledge of the problems of society?" Standing, he gazed down at her, frowning insistently, bent upon staring her out of countenance; and she looked up at him with a Didymus smile which slowly grew.
He assured her of this; and Helena, who had heard him mentioned as a man of ability, saw in him a helper in need, and begged him, with touching fervour, to show her grandfather, when he came before the officers, that all was not lost. The astonished architect asked if Didymus did not know what was impending, and Helena hastily replied: "He is working in the summer-house by the sea.
He longed to pose as a man in Dion's presence, and as this could not be, he strove to maintain the semblance of independence by yielding his resolve only on the plea of not desiring to injure the aged scholar and his granddaughter. Finally, he again entreated the architect to secure Didymus in the possession of his property.
His mother had once heard a sermon preached by a bishop from the text, "Then said Thomas, which is called Didymus, unto his fellow-disciples, Let us also go, that we may die with Him."
The officers sent by the Regent to inform Didymus that his garden would be converted into a public square had just arrived. When Gorgias entered, these magistrates, their clerks, and the witnesses accompanying them a group of twenty men, at whose head was Apollonius, a distinguished officer of the royal treasury were in the house. The slave who admitted the architect informed him of it.
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